Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the death of his father kicked Son Runciman upstairs into the peerage, curtailed his chances of becoming Prime Minister. Among Lord Runciman's varied interests are teaching Sunday School and yachting-he has sailed over 500.000 miles on salt water, and Sunbeam, one of his yachts, has twice taken him around the world. Last week, while headlines screamed his name in every land. Lord Runciman characteristically went down to yacht for a few days at Cowes, remote even from His Majesty's Government. This week he speeds to Prague to become Mediator...
...rejoiced when the news was announced. Last January Brazil rejoiced again: it was discovered that the Lamp Post had just died of tuberculosis in the State of Sergipe. Last week Brazil was happier still. The Department of National Telegraphs was able to report the Lamp Post's third death: near the town of Villanova, 230 miles north of Sao Salvador, Bahia, the police of Alagoas State aided by a posse of civilians caught up with the bandit and in a desperate gun fight killed him, eleven confederates, his mistress...
...could a man stand on a window ledge for eleven hours ignoring the calls of nature, pondering death? The question plagued every Manhattanite last week. Psychiatrists offered a psychiatric answer. Warde had a manic-depressive psychosis (alternating fits of madness and despair), and in a moment of extreme depression he had rushed to the window. But he had not made up his mind to kill himself. In addition to his depression he was suffering from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious...
...about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from any statutory requirement...
...this piqued the die-hards in the industry, they had cause to ponder too. For Bill Douglas, though disclaiming any further death sentence plans "because of our belief that the substantial companies in the industry are making progress" in designing such reorganizations, also declared: "This action on the part of the commission means the commission means business...